Hey makers! This is Charlotte with the Wooden Wick Co.
and today I'm excited to teach you how to make a color wick
available in a variety of colors and sizes to suit most any candle project.
I'm going to teach you guys today about all of the components you need in order
to make a color wick candle as well as walk you through the steps of how to actually complete one.
The first thing that you're going to need is some candle wax. Today I'm utilizing our cocoa
apricot cream which is a luxurious blend of coconut apricot and food grade paraffin wax.
It's great for beginners and has a superb fragrance throw
and it's going to give you a smooth even top after your first pour. You will also need a
vessel something to put your candle into. Be sure to choose a vessel that's safe for candle making.
Today I'm utilizing our iridescent prism aura which is a fun and colorful kind of rainbow
inspired vessel, which I thought was perfect as inspiration to go along with our color wicks.
Also, I have our daffodil yellow color wick and this is a single ply wick which works best with
our cocoa apricot cream. And I'm going to be using it in 0.625 inches wide which is the
appropriate width for our aura vessel. If you need help with determining which color wick to use for
your candle project head to woodenwick.com and navigate to our wick selection guide.
The wick selection guide will ask you your wax type as well as your vessel diameter and will
give you a recommendation for where to start with your testing on which wick is best for you.
Now everyone's favorite part, we're going to need some fragrance. Today I chose our toasted
coconut and midnight amber fragrance oil. It is a super sexy summery fragrance that smells like
sunscreen a little bit, long day on the beach- it takes me away to a tropical destination and
is a beautiful fragrance year-round, but I especially love it during the summer time.
Also to go along with our wick, we need a wick clip to hold it in place and some wick stickers
that will secure our wick and clip assembly to the bottom of your vessel. You will also need a
pouring pitcher, a scale, and something to mix your melted wax and fragrance oil together. As well as
a thermometer to keep tabs on the temperature of your wax as it's melting. I'm making a lot of
candles today so I've already pre-melted some wax which I've heated to 180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit,
which is the optimal pouring temperature for cocoa apricot cream. So let's get started.
First things first, take your wick and your wick clip and you can simply place your wick
into the center of the wick clip and rock it gently until it's fully inserted into your clip.
Now, take a wick sticker and peel away one side of your sticker, place it on the center bottom
of your wick and clip assembly, and simply peel away the secondary side of adhesive.
Now it's time to wick our vessels. Take your vessel and you're going to place the
wick clip assembly into the center bottom of your vessel and press it down firmly.
Now I've already pre-melted the wax, but typically you would cut up your wax you would weigh it on
a scale and then you'll place it into a wax melter or a double boiler in order to melt it.
The aura vessel holds about 12 ounces of wax and I'm going to use a 10% fragrance load today.
If you need help with calculating your fragrance load, head to woodenwick.com and check out our
fragrance calculator. To achieve a 10% fragrance load in a 12 ounce candle
I'm going to be using 1.2 ounces of fragrance oil and 10.8 ounces of wax. So my wax is already ready
to go. I am going to simply turn on my scale and I'm going to measure out 10.8 ounces of melted wax.
Be sure to use a scale that goes to at least two decimal places as this will help you to ensure you
are measuring accurately and that you have the appropriate amount of melted wax and fragrance.
Now take your fragrance oil
and we're going to pour an additional 1.2 ounces now of fragrance oil into our melted wax.
Okay fantastic, now we're ready to mix our fragrance and wax together. Begin stirring
and you want to stir for two to three minutes. I know this seems like a long time,
but it's an important step to ensure that your fragrance and melted wax bind together properly
and that you have a great cold and hot throw while your candle is burning.
The cold throw is what's known as the scent that you perceive when the candle's not burning and
the hot throw contrarily is what you smell when the candle is burning. Scent is referred to as the
number one reason why people choose to purchase a candle or why they come back to purchase one
again. So making sure that you have an awesome hot and cold throw is an important step in any
successful candle making venture. Now hang tight and let's keep stirring for another minute or two.
We did it! Now for the best part, it's time to pour your candle. Carefully take your pitcher
full of melted wax and your vessel and simply pour the liquefied wax slowly and carefully
into your vessel. Pour the wax until about 3/16 of an inch or .2 inches also known as 5 millimeters
remains above the surface of your wax. Leaving the appropriate wick height above your wax is an
important step to ensure that your candle burns consistently throughout the entire life of it
from the first burn all the way down to the bottom. Hey guys check it out! 24 hours later
and this is our finished color wick candle. Again to recap the components we have here today, I used
our cocoa apricot cream wax, our iridescent prism aura vessel, and our daffodil yellow color wick.
Thank you guys so much for joining me in how to make a color wick candle today. Again if
you have questions on which color wick you should use for your specific candle project
head to our wick selection guide at woodenwick.com. Thanks for watching and be sure to subscribe to
our channel to stay in the know on all the latest makers tips and tricks. Happy making!